How Did New Alchemy Go Under?

New Alchemy's funding came from a variety of sources. NASA visited New Alchemy to say how can this work? The biggest drawback of the systems that were designed at New Alchemy was that it used water and water is very heavy. For me, after my first three years as education director, people were shocked. I said, I'm accepting a position at state government. What? And they said, why? "I think what's going on here is incredibly important"